6 Things You Did Not Know about Vegetarian / Non-vegetarian Diet – by Mother & Sri Aurobindo
Uplift your consciousness! Receive daily spiritual quotes from great Rishis. Subscribe on WhatsApp. 1️⃣ From the spiritual perspective, a non-vegetarian diet is permitted, if the disciple needs it to sustain the health of the body (Satprem asked for Mother’s permission to stop his meat diet and return to simple vegetarian food. Mother refused because of […]
A Shocking Detail From Swami Vivekananda’s Time
Uplift your consciousness! Receive daily spiritual quotes from great Rishis. Subscribe on WhatsApp. Swami Vimalananda writes: “While living in the Baranagore Math, Swamiji was taken ill, and it was necessary in the interest of his health to leave the city. His brother monks, set upon restoring Swamiji to health, collected a few rupees to pay […]
Part 3: Goal of Vegetarianism & Ahimsa (non-violence) is to Develop Inner Purity; Not To Engender Hate and Self-Righteous Superiority
Over the last couple of years, India has seen a deepening vegetarian vs. non-vegetarian divide, the darkest feature of which has been the rise of cow vigilantism, where mobs of fanatic Hindus have beaten and lynched innocents Muslims and Dalits (lower castes) on the mere suspicion that they were eating beef. Uplift your consciousness! Receive […]
Part 2: Diet Depends on Circumstances – Swami Vivekananda & Sarada Maa’s Stance on Vegetarian / Non-Vegetarian
This article has been authored by Durga Prasad, an ardent devotee of Swami Vivekananda. In this second article I share more information that I gathered while I was exploring Swami Vivekananda’s stance on diet. As you know, in those times, many places in the West experienced harsh and cold climates, leading to challenging living conditions […]
Part 1: Why did Swami Vivekananda Teach Us to be Non-vegetarian if he Believed in Oneness?
This article has been authored by Durga Prasad, an ardent devotee of Swami Vivekananda. Why did Swami Vivekananda teach us to be non-vegetarian? Because of a context. Swami Vivekananda’s stance on non-vegetarianism must be viewed in the light of the specific context in which he lived. During the times of Swami Vivekananda (19th century), the […]